Quotes About Currency

Ben paid the $45 fare with a fifty and un-assed the vehicle.

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

This system, in which paper money is worth only a fraction of its stated value in gold or silver, was employed in the United States into the twentieth century. Then

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

The goal of what Japan's central bank is doing is to create growth. If it actually creates growth, in the long run, it will lead to appreciation.

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for I'd that he just whipped out a quarter?

We walked up to the first rack and I paid with another hard currency card and -Wow, that was three times the price of my last transient hostel. It's a good thing I don't have to eat.

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

Now we can see the real use of the Tarot pack. It is for living in and arranging our lives with. The cards are the exchange-symbols between inner and outer life…. Altogether the Tarots are a most valuable collection of psycho-physical currency convertible into either dimension. —Wm. B. Gray, Magical Ritual Methods

There are two monetary circuits in contemporary economies, a public money circuit and a commercial money circuit. Both create and circulate the public currency. The difference between them is that one is based on debt, the other is not.

Money: power at its most liquid.

If you find that you are short of funds in the field, remember that any paper can be mind augmented to perform in the place of real money.

It's hard to overstate how utterly mad it is for a Fed chairman in the age of the global economy to claim that a weak currency only affects tourists. It's a little bit like saying a forest fire only really sucks if you're a woodpecker.

Once we have the power to create the world's money, it won't matter who is elected in this or that country." " 'Give me the power to create a nation's money, and I care not who makes its laws'."

Appreciation is the strongest currency in the corporate culture.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

Commodities have shown a high correlation to inflation, especially in high inflation periods. In addition to diversification, the commodities asset class may also protect investment portfolios against an expected inflation or a declining local currency.

Gold belongs with a class of speculative investments and should be kept to a minimum in long-term investment portfolios. This statement is valid until the world adopts gold as the main component of a new international currency.

One main reason the US has been able to prevent its currency and economy from collapsing, despite the latest wars, huge debt and massive currency printing, is because the dollar is the de-facto standard for international trade and reserve currency.

They were all just countless cells that had joined together to make this group in particular—this group that Julie Jacobson, who had no currency whatsoever, suddenly decided she loved.

it is possible to cause more trouble with a rouble than with a club; it is only political economy that does not want to know it. — Leo Tolstoy, What Shall We Do Then? (1886)